Newly Discovered CAD Drawnings for Two Canceled Transformers Animated toys

TFA got the axe WAY too soon and was far too under-appreciated. It's a shame that quality, mold-breaking efforts like TFA always seem to play second fiddle to mediocre, cookie-cutter stuff. It'd be nice to see this show return, though I'm sure Hasbro would again sneer and pretend there's 'no market' for it..

That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.

But think of the remold potential!

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.

But think of the remold potential!

We have a whole football team here!
Maybe even two.

DeathReviews wrote:TFA got the axe WAY too soon and was far too under-appreciated. It's a shame that quality, mold-breaking efforts like TFA always seem to play second fiddle to mediocre, cookie-cutter stuff. It'd be nice to see this show return, though I'm sure Hasbro would again sneer and pretend there's 'no market' for it..

But Hasbro was at least willing to put down R&D for 3 seasons. I think they've put in honest effort. So IMO that's less Hasbro's fault and more the initial fans reaction to the stylized look that might've got Hasbro spooked.

Another factor might be that Hasbro thought they can just ride the Bayverse train and ignore other major media efforts for the brand?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.

But think of the remold potential!

We have a whole football team here!
Maybe even two.

And they all turn into Space Jalopies.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.

But think of the remold potential!

We have a whole football team here!
Maybe even two.

And they all turn into Space Jalopies.

Put some wings on them and you've got TFA Prime Steve's!

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sadly another TF show that started to really hit it's stride after ditching Earth.

And season 4 would have taken Animated back to Earth.

Not the point being made. Ditching Earth gives way to Transformers becoming a lot more creative. Often leading to more imaginative world building for the series too. Animated really benefitted from veering away from human-based enemies/scenerios and embracing it's own unique lore.

Agreed. The series finale felt like the show was finally shifting into high gear and taking off, so of course it ended. Reminds me of how the U.S. Marvel book got so good under Furman and Wildman that it could've burst the boundaries of its dead toyline and just kept going like ROM and Micronauts before it...but no, axed. If we could somehow get one long-dead TF cartoon another new season, I'd vote for Animated, no question.

And while that will never happen, we could, in theory, get the occasional new toy based on the hundreds of designs the late Mr. Wyatt drew up...which is why Legacy Animated Prowl with G1-ified face hurt so bad, and is ironically that last toy from the line I'd ever consider buying.

Keyan Carlile has made full retrospective videos looking at every single toy and piece of merchandise of Animated Prowl and Optimus Prime, beginning with their original toys from 2008 all the way up to their newest toys in the Legacy line, which he compares to those originals to see how they stack up to each other.

The merchandise he covers also ranges from the common to the obscure, even covering some items that few have ever heard of before.





He plans to eventually make the same kind of video for the new Bumblebee toy.

I am loving the Legacy animated guys so much, they are really making for some nice shelf additions. Prime is still an absolute standout

Got a couple new animated bots!

That voyager Megatron was my very 1st TFA figure, got it as a Christmas present. Still have him to this day, even if he's a bit awkward. Of course I had to get deluxe Prime to go with him.

I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.

Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.

Does it involve disassembly of the arm?

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.

Does it involve disassembly of the arm?

Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.

Does it involve disassembly of the arm?

Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.

Care to share?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.

Does it involve disassembly of the arm?

Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.

Care to share?

Yeah, don't be shy. Share with the group.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.

Does it involve disassembly of the arm?

Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.

Care to share?

Yeah, don't be shy. Share with the group.

Looking around for it, I believe this is the tutorial I used for it (it was originally posted back in 2008).

Though, contrary to the instructions given, I didn't use a dremel or any power tools. Just a small blade sharp enough to cut and hack away at the plastic.

Other mods from the time that I did were the one that allows Bumblebee's stingers to fold into his arms all the way, the one that allows Grimlock's upper arms to slide deeper into his shoulders, the one that allows Lockdown's hands to properly fold out from his arms all the way forward (though, I didn't not do this mod for Blazing Lockdown since it was pretty tough and time-consuming the first time with normal Lockdown, even if the results were still worth it), and I think that's all the Animated-related mods I did back then.

There was another mod for Prowl that allowed his knees to bend back even farther, but I couldn't get that one done right since it required too much precision to do to some very tiny, very specific parts of his thighs, and the extra bend in the knees really wasn't as much of a difference-maker as the other mods I did were, so I just left Prowl's already-sufficient knee articulation unmodified.